"Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day."

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Source : Mary Downing Hahn (2010). “The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mary Downing Hahn

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“I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.”
“Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.”
“I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.”
“You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.”
“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”
“The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.”
“In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.”

Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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